Category: 18th IACC

During the process to establish the Global Judicial Integrity Network, a network of – and platform for – judges to promote judicial integrity and combat judicial corruption around the world, numerous judges mentioned the lack of training in this domain and pointed to the need for a course which could be universally applicable and provide… Read more »

Corruption, either directly or indirectly, is the bane of poverty in Nigeria, various reports and researches have suggested. The Corruption Perceptions Index, released annually by Transparency International (TI), also gives credence to the pervasive corruption in the sub-Saharan country. Nigeria has always floated at the bottom of the list, among the most corrupt nations… Read more »

A series of recent major corruption scandals in Denmark is testing its status as one of the world’s least corrupt nations. IACC Young Journalist, Anne Sofie Hoffmann Schrøder, speaks with Steven Sampson, American professor of social anthropology about the sophisticated corruption thriving in Denmark and the Nordics.

The panel was framed as a question: “Is the American Anti-Corruption Model Broken?” but the moderator, Frank Vogl, an Advisory Council Member to Transparency International started by treating it as fact. The United States is in the middle of a “political crisis,” he said, using the murder of American resident, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi… Read more »

Successful cross-border investigations have highlighted that, with rigorous journalism, the powerful can be held accountable. But how do you go from getting a hunch to building a successful reporting investigation? Lessons, challenges and opportunities of big cross-border investigations, like the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, were topics covered in a workshop at the 18th… Read more »

The session discussed the misuse of digital tools and social media with the goal of swaying public opinion and skewing elections. The panelists particularly focused on the recent scandal of Cambridge Analytica in the US presidential elections, and the suspicions of foreign influence in political campaigns around the world. The high-level dynamic panel was attended… Read more »

The question as to whether technology enables perpetrators of corruption to cause more havoc, or whether it strengthens the arms of state actors, the media or crusaders who are fighting corruption, was addressed at the International Anti-Corruption Conference. “It depends on which context we are talking about,” said Mihály Fazekas, assistant professor and scientific director… Read more »

High-level human rights experts have called for the establishment of a special rapporteur for human rights and corruption. Appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), special rapporteurs are independent experts tasked to monitor and report on the human rights situation through either a country mandate or thematic mandate. As special rapporteurs, they… Read more »

New governments that have come to power around the world on the promise to fight corruption have fallen into old patterns of corruption, according to anti-corruption campaigners and experts. Panellists at the “Corruption and the Post Election Challenges” workshop held on Wednesday, during the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Denmark, opined that the reasons for… Read more »

The International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) ended with a strong call to countries to renew their commitments to the fight against corruption. “Now is the time to act,” Martin Bille Hermann, Denmark’s state secretary for development policy, remarked at the closing ceremony. Hermann said that it is a time for countries to make tangible commitments… Read more »

Denmark’s minister of taxation, Karsten Lauritzen, told an audience at this year’s International Anti-Corruption Conference that he writes an annual letter to the country’s top 20 tax-paying corporations. “Thanks for contributing to Danish society,” it reads. He was speaking at a panel titled ‘Confronting Tax Evasion and Other Illicit Financial Flows – Time to Translate… Read more »

The African Union declared 2018 the year of combating corruption in Africa. Chairperson of the African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC), the Honorable Bégoto Miarom, revealed that 40 African countries have already signed the convention on anti-corruption. They are now collectively looking to implement strategies and share information that can be effective across the… Read more »

On this Wednesday, October 24, at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Copenhagen, 170 activists from 63 countries signed a letter expressing concern to the growing threats to civil society and the democratic institutions in Brazil. In the text, the international community of anticorruption specialists gathered at the 18th IACC alert that the reduction of… Read more »

“The positive reinforcement of #kleptocracy by the #UnitedStates is significant. It is being actively exported by other kleptocracy networks in places such as #Brazil and #Honduras“. –@Sarah_Chayes. #18IACC pic.twitter.com/l7qdFFr06J — IACC (@IACCseries) October 24, 2018 “Anti-#corruption is the best foundation of #China’s growth in the future.” – Chen Guomeng. #18IACC pic.twitter.com/zScTYCy3cy — IACC (@IACCseries) October… Read more »

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